310.2/3–3154: Telegram
The United States Representative at the United Nations (Lodge) to the Department of State
533. Re Austrian membership in UN. Mr. Heinrich Haymerle, the Austrian observer, called this morning at his request to say that his government was thinking about the desirability of bringing up once again the question of Austrian membership in the United Nations. They have the feeling, in view of the flat turn-down which the Soviets gave to the Austrian treaty at Berlin1 that maybe the Soviets would not object.
He said that the current Austrian thinking was that raising the issue could not do any harm, that either they were admitted to membership which would be a very good thing for them, or else they would be turned down in which case they would be no worse off then they are now.
I would like the Department’s attitude on this matter.
- For documentation on this subject and other matters relating to Austria (as the operations of the Five-Power Commission at Vienna), see volume vii.↩